Poets on Place: Tales and Interviews from the Road
W. T. Pfefferle
(Author)
Description
Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W. T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resulted may surprise with the potential meanings of a seemingly simple concept. This gathering of voices and ideas is illustrated with photo and word portraits from the road and represented with suitable poems. The poets are James Harms, David Citino, Martha Collins, Linda Gregerson, Richard Tillinghast, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Mark Strand, Karen Volkman, Lisa Samuels, Marvin Bell, Michael Dennis Browne, David Allan Evans, David Romtvedt, Sandra Alcosser, Robert Wrigley, Nance Van Winckel, Christopher Howell, Mark Halperin, Jana Harris, Sam Hamill, Barbara Drake, Floyd Skloot, Ralph Angel, Carol Muske-Dukes, David St. John, Sharon Bryan, Donald Revell, Claudia Kellan, Alberto Rios, Richard Shelton, Jane Miller, William Wenthe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Cooley, Miller Williams, Beth Ann Fennelly, Natasha Trethewey, Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Terrance Hayes, Alan Shaprio, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Henry Taylor, Dave Smith, Nicole Cooley, David Lehman, Lucie Brock-Broido, Michael S. Harper, C.D. Wright, Mark Wunderlich, James Cummins, Frederick Smock, Mark Jarman, Carl Phillips, Scott Cairns, Elizabeth Dodd, Jonathan Holden, Bin Ramke, Kenneth Brewer, and Paisley Rekdal.Product Details
Price
$25.95
$24.13
Publisher
Utah State University Press
Publish Date
February 25, 2005
Pages
294
Dimensions
6.12 X 9.0 X 0.67 inches | 0.92 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780874215977
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About the Author
W.T. Pfefferle is the author of MY COOLEST SHIRT (The Word Works, 2015). Pfefferle's first book, The Meager Life and Modest Times of Pop Thorndale, won the Stevens Manuscript Prize in 2007. In 2004, he published Poets on Place, the story of his year-long trip around America interviewing and photographing American poets in their native habitats. Pfefferle also wrote Writing What Matters, a college writing textbook. He works as a college professor, including as the past Director of Expository Writing at the Johns Hopkins University, and poetry and writing professor at Georgetown College. He's a graduate of the Center for Writers Ph.D. program at the University of Southern Mississippi and earned his MFA at the American University. His poetry has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, North American Review, Nimrod, Mississippi Review, and other journals.
